What does it actually mean when the U.S. sends $X billion to another country?

Question

What actually happens? Does the foreign government get a lump sum or do we send payments? Where does that money come from?

Also how tf do we do this? Aren’t we trillions of dollars in debt?

In: Economics

Answer 1

I don’t understand much of it but recently they said “The US gives $8 billion to Ukraine.” What actually happened is about 80% of it just goes to US defense industry to replenish stockpiles of old weapons that have been given to Ukraine.